A short documentary about William Powell.
Self (archive footage)
A look at actresses who starred in films with thought-provoking subjects made between 1930 and July 1934, before the Hollywood Production Code —the infamous Hays Code— was enforced.
Herself (archive footage)
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.
Self (archive footage)
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
Self
Warner Brothers bloopers of 1947
Carole Raymond
Career-slipping movie star Carole Raymond buys in as a real estate partner of Jeff Caldwell. Actually, through his secretary, Nola Reed, Caldwell runs a matrimonial bureau and, with the aid of his associate, Lee Kirby, they defraud and blackmail a large group of lonely people. Carole, unknowingly, is used as bait for one of their victims, Walter Desmond, who "commits suicide." Reporter William Tyler thinks otherwise.
Producer
Unscrupulous women marry servicemen for their pay.
Sheila Seymour
Unscrupulous women marry servicemen for their pay.
Producer
A woman who has been married and divorced five times comes back to her small hometown, where she proceeds to complicate, and potentially destroy, the marriage of her childhood boyfriend.
Diane Carter
A woman who has been married and divorced five times comes back to her small hometown, where she proceeds to complicate, and potentially destroy, the marriage of her childhood boyfriend.
Kay Francis
Kay Francis, Carole Landis, Martha Raye y Mitzi Mayfair son cuatro muchachas que se desplazan a un campamento militar en el norte de África donde se va a celebrar un festival benéfico con la participación del resto del reparto. Situaciones cómicas y algún amago de relación dan pie a una canción tras otra.
Self
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.
Christine Bishop
A 20-year-old stage actress takes on her most challenging role when she pretends to be her own mother's 12-year-old daughter. Comedy.
Marjorie Scott
A man is pardoned from prison and returns to Santa Rita, CA to be with his family, but discovers his children have been told he's dead and his wife is in love with another man.
Nellie Woods
Enredo alrededor de un aburrido profesor de psicología, que viaja a Nueva York con su esposa, para reunirse con una editorial que podría publicar su obra, recién terminada, sobre el tema de los celos. Y en efecto, el editor muestra interés… ¿pero es por el libro, o por la atractiva mujer del autor?
Donna Lucia
In 1890, two students at Oxford force their rascally friend and fellow student to pose as an aunt from Brazil--where the nuts come from.
Adrienne Scott
John Evans encounters his lookalike, Malcolm Scott. When Scott is killed in an accident, Evans finds himself mistaken for Scott and decides to do some good in his new role.
Grace Herbert
When a gold digger starts to get a little old to ply her trade, she teaches a younger woman all her tricks.
Josephine "Jo" Bhaer
Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's heart despite his hard edge, and she defends him when he is falsely accused. Dan's foster father, Major Burdle, is a swindler in cahoots with another crook called Willie the Fox. When the Plumfield School becomes in danger of foreclosure, the two con men cook up a scheme to save the home.
Julie King
Tod Jackson es un joven abogado que llega a Kansas para visitar a sus amigos los Dalton. Una vez allí, averigua que la familia tiene graves problemas, pues una poderosa compañía está utilizando todo tipo de tretas para arrebatarles sus tierras. La situación llega a tal punto que consiguen convertir en proscritos a todos los miembros de la familia.
Georgia Drake
Una aspirante a actriz, que pretende participar en una película importante, descubre que su madre también esta tratando de conseguir el papel. Por si esto fuera poco, las dos se enamoran del mismo hombre.
Herself
Flubs and bloopers that occurred ont the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1939.
Maida Walker
Julie Eden (Carole Lombard), una joven viuda que tiene una hija, trabaja como dibujante publicitaria. Un día, conoce al rico y apuesto Alec Walker (Cary Grant), que está unido a la pérfida Maida (Kay Francis) por un matrimonio de conveniencia que lo hace muy desgraciado. La felicidad de Alec depende de conseguir el divorcio y casarse con Julie.
Janet Steele
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
Dr. Carole Nelson
Una médico está bajo el punto de mira de la policía tras la muerte de su marido, un médico que conseguía dinero fácil atendiendo a criminales sin denunciarlos. Tendrá que probar su inocencia o perderá su licencia para ejercer la medicina.
Eve Appleton
Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.
Fay Carter
Two architects lose their heads over a glamorous actress.
Mary Colbrook
An impoverished widow fights scandal for the sake of her four children.
Claire King Landin
Businesswoman Claire King is the daughter of a powerful advertising executive. When Claire marries humble copywriter Bill Landin, she wants to use her influence to help her husband get ahead, but he will have none of it.
Lady Chase-Wayne / Claire Landin (archive footage) (uncredited)
This was one of the annual "blooper" reels screened by the Warners Club, an organization of Warners actors, crew and executives. It was meant to poke fun at the flubs and bloopers that occurred ont the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
Lucy Chase Wayne
A politician's wife plots for her husband to become the next U.S. President.
Vera Kowalska
Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera's life.
Julia Ashton Wister
El Coronel John Wister (Ian Hunter), destacado en el desierto de Dubik con el ejército británico, retorna a su Inglaterra natal. Allí se enamorará de Julia Ashton (Kay Francis), que cuidará de él pero se ve incapaz de amarle al tener reciente la muerte de su prometido. Wister la convence para casarse, pero al retornar a Dubik conocerá al Capitán Denny Roark (Errol Flynn), quién despertará en ella todo el amor que no ha podido ofrecer a su marido. El inicio de la guerra con las tribus locales, y la consciencia de Wister del romance entre su mujer y su mejor amigo, hará que se avecine la tragedia.
Nicole Picot
A young model is set up with her own fashion business by a crooked financier, who sells worthless bonds.
Herself
Warner Brothers bloopers of 1937.
Herself
Time marches on.
Belinda 'Linda' Warren, aka 'Bill'
An American lawyer's wife is reunited with her child and his father, an English nobleman.
Florence Nightingale
In mid-nineteenth century England the medical establishment does not recognize the value of skilled nurses, cleanliness, nutrition and kindness. Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly changes all of this.
Self
Collection of Warner's stars blundering through missed takes.
Stella Parish
Stella Parish es una actriz londinense que, de repente, en la cima de su éxito, abandona su profesión. Un periodista será el encargado de seguir la pista de este hecho, descubriendo que detrás de todo el asunto se oculta un tormentoso pasado de Stella, que tiene que ver con una hija secreta y una condena carcelaria por asesinato.
Georgiana Summers
When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romantic tryst with a new love, she hatches a giddy plot to expose the rendezvous and pay her back.
Lynn Palmer
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
Amy Prentiss
A lay-about falls for his best friend's fiancee. The two of them run away from a life of privilege to one of middle-class normalcy. When an influx of money enters their life, their differences come to light.
Herself (uncredited)
A short, introduced in Pennsylvania when the state had laws disallowing the screening of films on Sunday, to sway voters on a referendum to allow such screenings.
Elena Moura
El servicio de inteligencia Británico le encarga a Stephen Locke (Leslie Howard) que persuada a la Unión Soviética para que no firme con Alemania un acuerdo de paz que sería muy perjudicial para los intereses de Inglaterra. Durante su misión, Locke se enamora de Elena (Kay Francis), la secretaria del líder ruso, que corresponde a sus sentimientos, pero que no está dispuesta a traicionar la causa bolchevique.
Dr. Monica Braden
A prominent New York doctor, unable to have a child, discovers her philandering husband has impregnated her best friend.
Liane Renaud
Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him.
Tanya Borodoff aka Spot White / Marjorie Lang
Tras ser abandonada por su amante, una mujer se convierte en la figura principal de un club nocturno en decadencia; después tratará de olvidar su pasado embarcándose con destino a Mandalay.
Peggy Martin Van Tyle / Peggy Stone
A beautiful chorine marries a handsome rich socialite, but her idyllic life ends when she visits a dying old beau and is charged when he commits suicide.
Laura McDonald
The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in love.
Mary Stevens
A woman doctor decides to have a baby without benefit of marriage.
Irina Radovic
Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of Archduke Ferdinand. While there he runs into Geza, an old friend in the Hungarian Army and invites him to come to his house and visit him and his new wife.
Anne Vallee Brooks
Una mujer es chantajeada por su primer marido, ella planea un viaje al extranjero para librarse de él.
Clemency Warlock
Ronald Colman da vida a un marido atormentado por haber mantenido una fugaz relación con una dependienta, relación que terminó en un escandaloso suceso. Así, decide sincerarse ante su mujer y contarle la verdad. Esta situación obliga a la pareja a exponer con claridad la verdad de su feliz (y aburrido) matrimonio.
Mariette Colet
Lily (Miriam Hopkins), una carterista que se hace pasar por condesa, conoce en Venecia al famoso ladrón Gaston Monescu (Herbert Marshall), quien a su vez se hace pasar por barón, y se enamoran. Gaston roba al aristócrata François Fileba y huye con Lily antes de que le descubran. Casi un año después, en París, Gaston roba un bolso con diamantes incrustados a la viuda Mariette Colet, pero se lo devuelve y la cautiva de tal forma que lo contrata como secretario.
Joan Ames
Dan Hardesty, un hombre sobre quien pesa una acusación de asesinato, viaja en un barco escoltado por un policía, haciendo una travesía desde Hong Kong a la prisión norteamericana de San Quintín. Durante el viaje conoce a Joan, una muchacha gravemente enferma del corazón, de la que se enamora. Dan intenta fugarse, pero regresa al ver que Joan está sufriendo un ataque. Es entonces cuando planean fugarse a México. (FILMAFFINITY)
Baroness Teri Hohenfels
A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jeweller's shop.
Natalie 'Nat' Upton
Un arquitecto casado, atrapado en un matrimonio sin amor a causa de su hija, mantiene una relación con una diseñadora de vestuario. Cuando está a punto de pedir el divorcio a su esposa, la hija se enamora del hermano de su amante.
Lois Ames
A female editor of a magazine falls in love with her male secretary.
Diana Merrow
Fredric March essays a dual role in this story of a ne'er-do-well who impersonates his brother when the latter dies.
Tina
A woman who is a member of a gang of con artists impersonates the mother of a wealthy blind man.
Wanda Howard
Con un argumento parecido a 'Hollywood al desnudo', rodado un año después, dos señoritas llamadas Wanda y Marie llegan a la ciudad de Nueva York deseosas de convertirse en actrices.
Fanny Towner
A nightclub singer is carrying on an affair with a married man. When she is found murdered, her lover is suspected of the crime.
Marjorie West
Complicada historia sobre la vivencia de un padre acusado de haber asesinado al amante de su hija.
Elsie Maury
When British mining engineer Robert Maury is sent to India on an extended business trip, his wife Elsie finds romance with a Spanish playboy.
Alice Morrison
A diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes.
Norma Page
A society gigolo goes after a rich mother and her daughter, but tries to find true happiness with his girlfriend, who is neither rich nor in "society."
Edith Flint
Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story about his wife.
Dutch-language version of Paramount on Parade (1930) produced and released by Paramount Pictures.
Dulce Morado
Una mujer de la alta sociedad genera un escándalo cuando se enamora de su chofer.
Marya Ivanova Sablin
Victor Sablin es un científico ruso muy importante cuya vida está en manos de un cínico y rastrero militar ruso. Con tal de que su marido siga vivo, su esposa Marya Ivanova, se entrega al militar, seduciéndole.
Constance Cook
The company of a musical comedy gets shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by a "king" from Brooklyn and his coterie of wild native girls.
Irene Manners
William Foster is a slick attorney who stays within the law, but specializes in representing crooks and shady characters. He's adept at keeping them out of jail, winning acquittals, and having decisions reversed, thus springing criminals out of prison. He is romantically involved with dancer Irene Manners, who is two-timing him, although she wants to marry him. She kills a man driving while out with her other man, Jack Defoe, who takes the blame. Unfortunately, a ring Foster had just given Irene is found at the crime scene. Foster ends up defending Jack, but when the ring is found, he thinks he is protecting Irene, so pleads guilty to jury tampering.
Gwen
A distinguished English gentleman has a secret life--he is the notorious jewel thief the press has dubbed "The Amateur Cracksman". When he meets a woman and falls in love he decides to "retire" from that life, but an old friend comes to him with a predicament that entails him committing one last job.
Countess Olga Balakireff
A scheming musician seduces a wealthy woman for love and money.
Carmen
Una serie de números musicales interpretados por estrellas bajo contrato de la Paramount, haciendo cosas que nunca habían hecho en sus películas habituales.
Alma Marsden
'Natural' Davis (William Powell) is a respected gambler who follows a ruthless code of honor with those who cheat against him. His wife, Alma (Kay Francis), wants to divorce him because of his addiction and lifestyle, but they agree on a reconciliation and second honeymoon together and 'Natural' promises to give up gambling. However, his plans change when his brother, 'Babe' (Regis Toomey), arrives in town looking to score big, and 'Natural' has to devise a plan quickly to put him off gambling forever.
Kitty Parker
Gardoni, a down-on-his-luck vaudeville performer, is taken in by a fellow performer, a clown who has a bicycle riding act. Gardoni shows his appreciation by stealing the clown's act and his girlfriend, whom he marries.
Lady Wrench
A delightful pre-code cocktail recipe. Take three couples (add gin and tonic), their several divorces and the seven children/stepchildren of their intermarriages and blend thoroughly, and you have a mixture a too-young-to-believe Frederic March will try to straighten out.
Zelda Paxton
A vaudeville magician team is broken up when Carlee, an ex--circus performer, becomes infatuated with socialite Hilda Schmittlap. Meanwhile his vaudeville partner, Claire, has chosen a new partner, but her "heart isn't in it" because she is disconsolate over Carlee. Curious about her new act, Carlee attends a performance and sees Claire nearly killed when she fails to substitute fake bullets for real ones. Rushing to her aid, Carlee realizes how much Claire means to him.
Zara Flynn
A young bareback rider in a circus is in love with a trapeze artist, but he has two problems: he drinks too much and he's fallen under the spell of a "vamp" who's nothing but trouble for him.
Penelope
Durante el auge inmobiliario de Florida, los Hermanos Marx gestionan un hotel, subastan tierras, frustran un robo de joyas y, en general, actúan como ellos mismos.
Myra May
A newsman is drawn away from family life by the needs of his paper until a new woman enters his life.
